Pathways to Ancient Britain
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PAB focuses on three chronological periods of human presence in Britain: earliest occupation, Neanderthals, emergence of modern humans. 👣
52°49 ́36 ̋ N, 1°31 ́58 ̋ E
Joined July 2019
#ICYMI our 3D scans of hominin fossils ( https://t.co/UK63Va7BIM) and prehistoric artifacts ( https://t.co/nZ52O3CQFv) are now viewable online on the @Smithsonian3D website! The viewer software even has a measuring tool. 😍
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#inktober2023 11) Wander. The astonishing Happisburgh footprints . Made c900,000 years ago by a group of adults & (wonderfully) children walking along mudflats on what is now Norfolk. These ephemeral traces of humans are the earliest footprints outside Africa. Mind blowing.
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Look out for '🧊Ice Age: Frozen World' with @michaelastracha and @SteveBackshall coming soon - I was a scientific advisor on that one!
Explore the world with these amazing shows, coming soon 🤩 🧊Ice Age: Frozen World 🚀 Secrets Of Our Universe With @astro_timpeake 🇯🇵 Japan With @TheJaneMcDonald ❄️ Endurance: Race To The Pole 🌗 Wonders Of The Moon With @daraobriain
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👣 The #Happisburgh footprints have been in the news again recently. This brilliant book celebrates these and other #footmarks. 👣
🎉 👏 #Footmarks is published in the US today! For those that don’t know, it is a book about archaeology and movement, footprints, paths, roads, crossing lands and seas. A celebration of pilgrims and travellers and migrants. Here is a bit more info 👇 https://t.co/d9NXSFb8mK
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How a massive North Atlantic cooling event disrupted early human occupation in Europe https://t.co/HXi3uLQ01J via @physorg_com
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A new study published in the journal Science finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources...
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👀 New blog! Beach replenishment adds a new dimension to the #Palaeolithic story of the #Norfolk coast. New #OpenAccess paper from PAB researchers and collectors. #DeepHistoryCoast
https://t.co/fu1pYKphEP
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Middle Palaeolithic occupation of the southern North Sea Basin: evidence from the Sandscaping sediments emplaced on the beach between Bacton and Walcott, Norfolk, UK - Davis - 2023 - Journal of Quaternary Science - Wiley Online Library
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During the summer of 2019, the Bacton to Walcott Coastal Management Scheme involved the emplacement on to the foreshore of 1.8 million cubic metres of sand and gravel dredged from the submerged...
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Catch up with recent activities from @pathwaysab, including excavation news and a guided walk in Stoke Newington led by PAB researchers @Dr_ClaireH and @SGL350 with @HackneyMuseum. https://t.co/fu1pYKphEP
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On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean 'Giant' Handaxe from the Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent https://t.co/RK5OnZ3VeV New #OpenAccess article in IA61 by @LettyIngrey @DrDufftown Martin Bates, Andrew Shaw & @MatthewPope
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Look what turned up in the post today. Author advanced copies of 'Exploring Norfolk's Deep History Coast'! Look out for copies in really good shops near you, July 2023. #fossils #Archaeology
@NorthNorfolkVC @Lynn_Museum @CromerMuseum @NorwichCastle @PathwaysAB @WestRuntonBeach
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Fancy a rummage in the rockpools tomorrow??? Or maybe a fossil hunt?? @NorfolkWT will be here from 11am. #rockpools #fossilhunting #deephistorycoast #westrunton #homeofthemammoth
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@BBCAmos @AdamRutherford At my latest count it was 12 known arrivals, followed by 11 disappearances, starting about 900,000 years ago. The present phase started about 11,700 years ago, but even that involved many further arrivals..
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@BBCAmos This covers some of those early human arrivals (and losses)..
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Podcast Episode · Dan Snow's History Hit · 21/05/2023 · 49m
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#ICYMI Very pleased to have been invited onto @BBCEssex with @DaveMonkEssex yesterday discussing Essex's rubbishscapes and #historiclandfill. Starting at 3.08s
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North Norfolk District Council has issued a warning after tonnes of sand and soil landed on a beach after a cliff collapsed at Sidestrand. https://t.co/aVzxgjldZc
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I’ll be discussing how #climatechange, #sealevel rise and #coastal erosion threaten to release millions tonnes of rubbish and pollution to our beaches @pintofscience @QMULGeography
Two weeks to go before the @pintofscience ! @QMUL and the #OurSociety team have assembled an impressive speakers lineup. First evening: Discover how climate change will directly affect your life! With @dr_andy_russell and @DrKateSpencer
https://t.co/Pc3ECVvmGw
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This won’t be the first time I have talked rubbish in a pub all night. But I’m really looking forward to discussing @olifranklin great new book #wasteland and getting us all to think a bit more carefully about what we throw away #historiclandfill #legacywaste
Thrilled to announce! June 29th we are having a really rubbish night! We welcome @olifranklin @DrKateSpencer for #wasteland - the past , present and future of our relationship with waste and rubbish. With @NewhamBookshop . Tix on sale soon as
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